2023-09-28 12:19:11
” We are confident. » “We have the guarantee. » “We have insurance. » At the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, we did not hesitate, on Wednesday September 27, to use reassuring statements during the presentation of the finance bill for 2024, and more particularly the budget which should be devoted to sport.
It was a matter of looking ahead beyond the summer of 2024 and the Olympics, and of trying to convince that there will be no “hangover” post-Olympic with regard to support for sports practice, as a certain number of parliamentarians and local elected officials had expressed the fear a year ago. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s teams have thus struggled to play the card of “everything will be fine” when the data appearing in the budgetary documents are likely to fuel this fear of a post-Olympic depression.
In the finance bill for 2024, the payment appropriations allocated to the sport, youth and community life mission drop from 1.76 billion euros in 2024 to 1.6 billion in 2025 and 2026. This is also what appears in the public finance programming bill for 2023-2027for which the government will use article 49.3.
These figures certainly correspond to a perimeter “which goes beyond just the field of sport”, as noted by the ministry. They don’t score any less “Facially a drop of 130 million euros in payment credits” for public policies in favor of sport alone, for 2025 and 2026, we admit to Ms. Oudéa-Castéra.
“A trompe-l’oeil effect on 2025 and 2026”
Yes the spa “facially” is used to describe this decline in funding, it is, the ministry explains, that“there is a trompe-l’oeil effect on 2025 and 2026”. First of all, this reduction will mark the disappearance, after 2024, of measures “exceptional” linked to the Games: this would represent “around 50 million euros”.
But this reduction would also reflect a possible gap between the financing which, on paper, could be used – payment authorizations – and the financing which, in reality, could be released – payment credits. This would particularly apply to the new financing plan for 5,000 sports facilities, announced at the beginning of September by the President of the Republic, which should mobilize 100 million euros per year for three years.
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The ministry claims to have “the guarantee of these 100 million per year in authorizations” of payment, but he emphasizes that “the pace of disbursements could be a little longer”thus contributing, in part, to the reduction shown in payment appropriations. “We have the display of multi-year stability of the government’s commitment, the trajectory for 2025 and 2026 allows us to be confident of an absence of dropout”we argue to Ms. Oudéa-Castéra, while the latter has repeated, on several occasions in recent months, that “the light will not go out when we close the Games” and that the sports budget will not decrease after 2024.
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